Collaborative Research on Legitimacy, Judicial Power and the European Court of Justice

这是一个与俄亥俄州立大学的格雷戈里·卡尔代拉合作的项目，目的是调查跨国法律机构获得大规模政治合法性并遵守其决定的过程。该项目的重点是欧洲法院，它正在成为世界上最强大的司法机构之一，并基于对欧洲共同体12个国家公众的调查。这项调查是1992年秋季欧洲晴雨表的一部分。将检验关于跨国机构获得合法性的几个假设，以及这种合法性对遵守国家和国际法院的后果。该项目是调查获得和维护跨国法律机构合法性的进程的首批研究努力之一。这一分析将有助于制度合法性理论的发展：(1)确定理论框架是否适用于民族国家的范围；(2)探索合法性与合规性之间的联系，主要依赖于程序正义理论；(3)检验一系列关于法院、合法性和合规性的传统假设，这些假设以前没有进行过比较研究；(4)为今后研究机构获得善意的过程提供基准；以及(5)通过分析法院如何促进跨国政治和法律机构的合法性并从中获利，促进民主理论的发展。总体而言，该项目将有助于解决比较政治、法律制度运作和国际关系中的突出问题。

This is a collaborative project, with Gregory Caldeira of the Ohio State University, to investigate the processes through which transnational legal institutions acquire mass political legitimacy and attain compliance with their decisions. The project focusses on the European Court of Justice, which is emerging as one of the most powerful judicial institutions in the world, and is based on a survey of the mass publics in the twelve nations of the European Community. The survey constitutes part of the Autumn 1992 Eurobarometer. Several hypotheses will be tested about the acquisition of legitimacy by transnational institutions, as well as the consequences of that legitimacy for compliance with both national and international courts. The project is one of the first research efforts investigating processes of the acquisition and maintenance of the legitimacy of transnational legal institutions. The analysis will contribute to the development of theories of institutional legitimacy through (1) determining whether the theoretical frameworks are useful beyond the confines of the nation-state;, (2) exploring the connections between legitimacy and compliance, relying heavily on theories of procedural justice; (3) testing a serious of conventional hypotheses about courts, legitimacy, and compliance for which there are no previous comparative inquiries; (4) providing a benchmark for future research into the processes through which institutions acquire a reservoir of good will; and (5) contributing to the development of democratic theory by analyzing how courts contribute to and profit from the legitimacy of transnational political and legal institutions. Overall, the project will contribute to prominent questions in comparative politics, the workings of legal systems, and in international relations.